britishasian2011 Review of The Off Season

The Off Season (2004)

A slow beginning film that soon ends with a bang...

[7/10 · 17 August 2005]

This movie takes place in the rural part of Maine in a small, run down motel called Viking Motel. When Rick and Kathryn decide to try and begin a new release from their big city lifestyle, they were not ready for such a twisted turn to their life. Upon first arriving, they are assigned to a second floor room. Upon discovering that the bathroom is covered with feces, they are moved to the bottom level Room 13. At the beginning, Kathryn discovers a blood stain on her side of the bed, but to not raise any fuss about it, covers it up quickly. That night she has a horrible dream, and so begins the strange happenings of the motel. Such include strange visits from previous guests, creepy men hanging around their room as well as unexplainable phone calls. Kathryn soon gets a job working as an assistant at a local library. Rick begins his writing, but soon there after begins to favor frequenting the local bar with Phil, the creepy man that spies on them. Their relationship soon takes a turn for the worse when following Kathryn becoming sick, Rick, after coming home drunk the night before, leaves Kathryn to go live in LA with Phil. He was supposedly going to write for a TV show. That left Kathryn living alone in her room. One night, Kathryn is attacked by a spirit, which left her incapacitate for about a week. That also left her jobless and in need of medical attention. Upon relaxing and moving on, the landlord, Mrs. Farthing, tells her the tale about the room as well as gives Kathryn a stack of books to read through. Following those excursions, while taking a shower, Kathryn is scared by a spirit and flees frantically from her room. It all ends up that the old man next door, Ted, starts to take interest in Kathryn. That also happens to be when the spirits do likewise. As it turns out, the spirit that attacked Kathryn in the shower used to be a friend of Teds. His name was Kurt, and he had killed himself following the release of the book that Kathryn was reading. Upon further investigation, Kathryn learns about Nora Green, a mother that was involved with a scandal a while back, and also killed herself and her child. Despite all of this, Kathryns mother speaks from the grave and tries to both help as well as sabotage Kathryn. After uttering the words, "I love you" to her mother, Kathryn is taken by Nora. Later on, Kathryn continues on to write a book with the same intent as Walter. To show the truth...